Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — Georgia Bank Closes Doors. [ARTICLE]

Georgia Bank Closes Doors.

The People’s Bank .of Americus, Ga., closed its doors as a result of a quiet run for a week. The capital of the bank was $50,000 and the amount due creditors is ■aid to be $30,000. President Simmons ■lainis that the assets will offset the liaMlitles. Harry Barber, living at Mt. Zion, twenty miles southeast of Clinton, Mo., was burned to death. The bouse in which he was sleeping caught fire and he was unable to escape. Two brothers, Neill and Carl Barber, wera severely burned and will probably die.